This retro TV dinner-style serving tray will put you in the way-back machine...all the way to 1969 perhaps, watching the Apollo Moon Landing while eating your Salisbury steak and corn as Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind.

A TV tray table, TV dinner tray, or personal table is a type of collapsible furniture that functions as a small and easily portable, folding table. These small tables were originally designed to be a surface from which one could eat a meal while watching television.

You can prepare your own TV dinners with reusable divided trays or dishes similar to the current paper trays or retro aluminum ones. Finding these useful items can be a challenge however. This is a guide about buying TV dinner trays.

The retro TV trays have a look that is very different from the look of today’s sets. Most of the older tray sets were made from tin or tin type material. The colors on most of them were a duller color, but since they were made and were popular in the 1970’s...